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February 15, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Cheap first trick subsequently costs contract

...BiddingDealer: South E/W Game The bidding went well....

April 23, 2024

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Bridge - Card game

Bridge: excellent lead challenges declarer to think carefully before initial play

...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...

February 7, 2024

Travel

Asturias — why Spain’s cool coast is this summer’s hot destination

...I recommend an evening on the Calle Gascona, boisterous heart of Oviedo’s cider scene, and the salty chigres of Cimadevilla district above Gijón harbour. turismoasturias.es Truly outstanding hotels have...

March 13, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Camp! — a snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic

...According to Paul Baker’s description in Camp!, “With camp the producer is not aware of the effect [on the audience], while campy is on purpose”....

August 11, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Deduction from silence reveals position of missing cards

...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...

December 6, 2023

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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PE+QE made K&E. Will it last? Premium

...“[The Paul Weiss raid] has disrupted the myth that once you have reached Kirkland, you can’t go anywhere else.”...

December 13, 2023

Travel

White sands and pink dolphins on an Amazon adventure

...With funding from Brazilian NGO Saúde e Alegría, and with Frankenberg’s practical assistance, the community has built a palm-roofed hall for visitor activities and a “redario” where hammocks can be slung...

January 6, 2024

HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024

What to drive to your wedding

...painted white, a Fiat 500 in Tuscany (“I had to fold myself into the back but it was magic,” said the bride), a 1980s Mercedes-Benz SL Cabrio, a 1970s Starsky and Hutch-style Ford Gran Torino (“Starsky [Paul...

April 18, 2024

Asset allocation

*SOLD OUT* The FT Alphaville pub quiz is finally returning to New York

...Nearest subway stop is Houston Street Station on the 1 line, but West 4th St (A, C, E, B, D and F lines) is just a short walk away. How much? $20 per person....

April 4, 2024

US & Canadian companies

Crypto got Rakoff’d

...Todd Baker is a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia....

August 3, 2023

Food & Beverage

Smackdown vs raw honey: a sticky situation

...(a) (of a gem) uncut, unpolished; (b) (of water) undistilled; not filtered; (c) (of alcoholic spirit) undiluted; (d) (of grain) unmalted, undried; (e) (of sewage) untreated. I.2.e....

March 1, 2024

Edward Luce

Democracy dies in Trumpian boredom

...He took out a $91.6mn surety bond to pay defamation damages to his sexual assault victim, E Jean Carroll....

March 13, 2024

HTSI

19 ways to say it with bouclé

...€440 Airei wool-mix trousers, £1,045, selfridges.com Pols Potten terry-loop fabric Clover pouf, £255, madeindesign.co.uk The inspiration: Romy Schneider at Coco Chanel’s studio, Paris, c1960 A.W.A.K.E....

January 6, 2024

US politics & policy

Biden factors domestic energy costs into decision to pause LNG permits

...American consumers, they will find out that which is patently obvious to everyone, which is we have so much energy security we are exporting it to other countries,” said Jason Bennett, a partner at law firm Baker...

January 30, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

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The Morgan Stanley of Europe? Premium

...He joins from Paul Hastings, where he had headed its alternative lender and private credit group....

March 19, 2024

Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers

How big should a US law firm be? Plus: top 35 innovative firms

...“There is so much fragility in the law firm market,” says Brad Karp, chair of Paul Weiss. “You are faced with coming up with existential strategies every day now.”...

December 5, 2023

FT SeriesHouse & Home Christmas Special 2023

Bruges is in full Christmas mode but no gifts for local homebuyers

...“We like to call it Disneyland,” says David Fonteyne, general manager at Found & Baker estate agency. “For residents, it takes a lot of the comfort away....

December 6, 2023

Investor activism

US state leads pushback against company moves to thwart proxy fights

...Will’s decision will prompt companies to review bylaw changes they made following the SEC’s universal proxy rule, said Sean Donahue, a partner at Paul Hastings....

January 9, 2024

ObituaryCarla Bley

Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, 1936-2023

...But seeing the trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan play in a bar in San Francisco in the early 1950s proved a pivotal moment....

November 4, 2023

ReviewVisual Arts

The Metropolitan Museum’s rehung European galleries are a triumph

...Just one of the new galleries (616) will supply a baker’s dozen. You like Goya? Here’s a chorus line of them arrayed against a wine-red wall. Vermeer?...

December 5, 2023

News in-depthPaul Weiss

‘Project Springsteen’: how law firm Paul Weiss raided rival Kirkland in London push

...On a balmy Friday evening in the middle of August, senior partners from two of America’s most powerful law firms were among the thousands packed into Chicago’s Wrigley Field as Bruce Springsteen and the E...

September 15, 2023

FT Swamp Notes

Tyler Cowen: Why we will learn to love AI Premium

...In a 15,000 word essay (published ironically as an e-book), he laid out why we had hit a technological plateau in which all the low-hanging fruits of easy productivity growth had been exhausted....

April 19, 2024

Fashion accessories

Men’s hats? They can be done

...Personally, I struggle with baker boys and have a fear of trilbies....

November 6, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Unfortunate declarer stymied by key defensive plays not found elsewhere

...Astonishingly, at over 20 other tables, E/W recorded a plus score. Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...

May 30, 2023

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